You know, I read this Sebastian Mallaby piece yesterday and was too appalled to write about it. So I’m glad Eric Alterman did instead, because it’s excreable:
How is the economic philosophy of the Washington Post’s Sebastian Mallaby here any different than that of the Wall Street Journal editorial page? And is it any wonder that the wealthy and obscenely wealthy have enjoyed virtually all the benefits of recent economic growth when no one will stand up for the for the interests of the working men and women of this country? The Republicans are ruining the country’s future finances and this guy is attacking the Democrats for opposing a company that is destroying hometown stores, sponging off state Medicaid, and undermining local unions. Wal-Mart workers are supposed to live on poverty wages, and Mallaby tells them that the Democrats have no business telling them to do anything but take it and like it. Union representation in the private sector is down below 8 percent here and a so-called “liberal†newspaper speaks only for the prosperous. Sorry, but Antonio Gramsci had this country down.
I hate Sebatstian Mallaby. When he went after Kerry I asked him why he, as an ablebodied man of miltary age wasn’t in Iraq, he got all sorts of snotty with me. Little Debbie Howell wrote me too.
Fuck him. I hope he gets bowel cancer and dies.